The Portfolio Manager follows value style of investing. The Value Strategy defines ‘Value Investing’ as “Good business at reasonable / attractive price” and not mediocre business at a bargain price. The Strategy uses various stock selection parameters while also adhering to the due diligence processes to identify stocks with potential to generate a compounded performance over the long term.
Mr. Chockalingam Narayanan
Mr. Chockalingam Narayanan has over 17 years of extensive experience in Fund Management, Investment Research and Market Analysis. He has been instrumental in analysing business fundamentals to derive relevant and actionable analysis that has portfolio growth. He is consistently relied upon for providing detailed analysis of the macro-economy, financial markets and ESG that serve as some of the key foundation pillars for the various investment strategies that he has worked with in his career. In his career, he has earlier worked with leading organisations like Baroda BNP Paribas Asset Management India Pvt Ltd, Deutsche Equities India Private Limited and Batlivala & Karani Securities.
Academically, Mr Chockalingam Narayanan has a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from T A Pai Management Institute, Manipal and a Bachelor of Commerce from G.R.Damodaran College of Science. He has also passed the Financial Risk Manager (FRM) certification by the Global Association of Risk Professionals, USA.
Ms Geetika Gupta
Ms Geetika Gupta is Fund Manager – Portfolio Management Services & Alternative Investments Funds at ICICI Prudential AMC. She has over a decade of experience in investments, both in sell-side equity research and buy-side research. Prior to joining ICICI, she was Vice President at First Voyager Advisors for six years, where she was responsible for the fund’s investments in Indian equities.
She began her career in 2007 at Lehman Brothers covering US Equities and later interned with Morgan Stanley, Singapore in the Investment Banking Division in 2010. She comes with deep understanding of the BFSI sector, as well as in B2C businesses in the consumer and technology space. She is an alumnus of IIT Delhi (B.Tech, Chemical Engineering) and IIM, Ahmedabad